pepper

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 [U] a grey or pale yellow powder made from dried berries (called PEPPERCORNS), used to give a hot flavour to food: Season with salt and pepper * freshly ground pepper * black / white pepper seealsoCAYENNE 2 [C,U] (BrE) (AmE bell pepper) a hollow fruit, usually red, green or yellow, eaten as a vegetable either raw or cooked verb [VN] to put pepper on food: peppered steak * Salt and pepper the potatoes. PHRASALVERBS pepper sb/sth with sth [usuallypassive] to hit sb/sth with a series of small objects, especially bullets pepper sth with sth [oftenpassive] to include large numbers of sth in sth: He peppered his speech with jokes.